11 October 2016

How many people have done agile training in Australia?

I was wondering this in the context of another problem. And this is what I came up with.

I went to Scrum
Alliance to see how many certified scrum people there are in Australia. Their
search gave me a hundred pages of ten people per page. That’s 10,000 certified
scrummers. (CSM, CPO, CSP, etc)

I checked to see if I was there, having done my CSM in about
2010. Nope, so it is only people who maintain currency.

The Scrum.org numbers.
Not available, but let’s imagine a pareto rule applies and they have 2000
current registered certifications.

I imagine that investing in the certification comes with the
training and 80+% of people let it lapse within 1-2 years. This Scrum thing has
been a big deal for about ten yours now in Australia, so potentially the market
is reasonably saturated and growth is maybe 10% year on year.

So maybe there are about 12,000 people currently registered,
and maybe 40,000 people have been through some sort of certified scrum
training.

Let’s imagine another class or corporate agile training that
touches a few, but essentially washes over the heads of many. Let’s say another
100,000 because enterprise IT is big.

That hints that there are about 150,000 people who have been
in a classroom doing some kind of agile training.